kernfs_remove supported NULL kernfs_node param to bail out but revent per-fs lock change introduced regression that dereferencing the param without NULL check so kernel goes crash. This patch checks the NULL kernfs_node in kernfs_remove and if so, just return. Quote from bug report by Jirka ``` The bug is triggered by running NAS Parallel benchmark suite on SuperMicro servers with 2x Xeon(R) Gold 6126 CPU. Here is the error log: [ 247.035564] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 [ 247.036009] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 247.036009] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 247.036009] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 247.036009] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 247.058060] CPU: 1 PID: 6546 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.16.0393c3714081a53795bbff0e985d24146def6f57f+ #16 [ 247.058060] Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X11DDW-L, BIOS 2.0b 03/07/2018 [ 247.058060] RIP: 0010:kernfs_remove+0x8/0x50 [ 247.058060] Code: 4c 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c3 49 c7 c4 f4 ff ff ff eb b2 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 55 <48> 8b 47 08 48 89 fd 48 85 c0 48 0f 44 c7 4c 8b 60 50 49 83 c4 60 [ 247.058060] RSP: 0018:ffffbbfa48a27e48 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 247.058060] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffffff89e31f98 RCX: 0000000080200018 [ 247.058060] RDX: 0000000080200019 RSI: fffff6760786c900 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 247.058060] RBP: ffffffff89e31f98 R08: ffff926b61b24d00 R09: 0000000080200018 [ 247.122048] R10: ffff926b61b24d00 R11: ffff926a8040c000 R12: ffff927bd09a2000 [ 247.122048] R13: ffffffff89e31fa0 R14: dead000000000122 R15: dead000000000100 [ 247.122048] FS: 00007f01be0a8c40(0000) GS:ffff926fa8e40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 247.122048] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 247.122048] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000001145c6003 CR4: 00000000007706e0 [ 247.122048] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 247.122048] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 247.122048] PKRU: 55555554 [ 247.122048] Call Trace: [ 247.122048] <TASK> [ 247.122048] rdt_kill_sb+0x29d/0x350 [ 247.122048] deactivate_locked_super+0x36/0xa0 [ 247.122048] cleanup_mnt+0x131/0x190 [ 247.122048] task_work_run+0x5c/0x90 [ 247.122048] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x229/0x230 [ 247.122048] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x18/0x40 [ 247.122048] do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90 [ 247.122048] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ 247.122048] RIP: 0033:0x7f01be2d735b ``` Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215696 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAE4VaGDZr_4wzRn2___eDYRtmdPaGGJdzu_LCSkJYuY9BEO3cw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Fixes: 393c3714081a (kernfs: switch global kernfs_rwsem lock to per-fs lock) Reported-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/kernfs/dir.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index 61a8edc4ba8b..e205fde7163a 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -1406,7 +1406,12 @@ static void __kernfs_remove(struct kernfs_node *kn) */ void kernfs_remove(struct kernfs_node *kn) { - struct kernfs_root *root = kernfs_root(kn); + struct kernfs_root *root; + + if (!kn) + return; + + root = kernfs_root(kn); down_write(&root->kernfs_rwsem); __kernfs_remove(kn); -- 2.36.0.rc2.479.g8af0fa9b8e-goog